Living in an area dominated by a foreign power, he experienced firsthand the helpless feeling of being colonized. ... The story is also heavily influenced by the impressionist movement. This movement is characterized by an "incessant appeal to the senses, or rather to the sense of imagination."" ... The impressionist movement greatly inspired Conrad and led to the vivid language used to create the deeply disturbed tone of the novel. ... In addition to the background, both of the books' titles lend a great deal to the book's overall tone and themes. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Indeed, it is true that readers need a background awareness of psychology, anthropology, history and aesthetics to master some of the literature of the early years of Modernism: T.S. ... In 1899, Arthur Symons, one of the poetic 'aesthetes' of the 1890s, published his study The Symbolist Movement in Poetry, which would have great influence on modern poets like W.B. ... Yeats himself quickly drew the lesson that 'We must purify poetry', which was to continue, through movements like Imagism and Vorticism, up to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, the period when the Mode...

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